BEHAVIOURAL BIASES IN MUTUAL FUND INVESTMENT DECISIONS
Investor choices in collective fund requests are affected not just by logical fiscal evaluation but also by cerebral impulses that impact threat perception and investment opinions. This exploration investigates the impact of significant behavioural impulses, recency bias, performance- chasing tendency, loss aversion, safety-seeking gesture, internal account, diversification perception bias, and herding gesture on colourful types of collective finances. The study employs a qualitative approach predicated on secondary literature, behavioural finance propositions, and recorded request substantiation. The results show that recency bias and performance- chasing tendencies lead investors to allocate finances to equity collective finances after strong short- term earnings, whereas loss aversion prompts investors to move toward debt collective finances during times of request oscillations. In cold-blooded collective finances, impulses in internal accounts and diversification lead investors to view mixed portfolios as innately less parlous, affecting their allocation choices without a thorough assessment of the associated pitfalls. Also, herding gestures lead to nippy investor involvement in sectoral and thematic finances during times of robust demand trends. The exploration emphasises that behavioural impulses significantly impact collective fund investment choices, leading to skewed portfolio distribution and cyclical investment trends.
SAHU, J. (2026). Behavioural Biases in Mutual Fund Investment Decisions. International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, 02(04). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i4.515
SAHU, JIYA. "Behavioural Biases in Mutual Fund Investment Decisions." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, vol. 02, no. 04, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i4.515.
SAHU, JIYA. "Behavioural Biases in Mutual Fund Investment Decisions." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology 02, no. 04 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i4.515.
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